Hungerford Care Home
Wantage Road, Hungerford, RG17 0PN · West Berkshire · South East
CQC marks this as an inherited rating — carried over from the location's previous registration (for example after a change of ownership), not from an inspection of the current registration.
CQC’s records also hold a deregistered registration with this name at this postcode: Hungerford Care Home, Alliance Care (Dales Homes) Limited, deregistered 2 May 2025; Hungerford Care Home, Four Seasons 2000 Limited, deregistered 9 Aug 2016.
What the record says
Rated Requires improvement overall, and the rating is 2 years old, and 3 of this operator's 7 rated homes are below Good — this one and 2 others.
- Below Good on
- SafeRequires improvement, published 5 Dec 2023EffectiveRequires improvement, published 5 Dec 2023Well-ledRequires improvement, published 5 Dec 2023
- Age of rating
- 2 years old — published 5 Dec 2023, and no newer rating had been published by 1 Sep 2026. A re-inspection could move it in either direction.
- This operator's rated services
- Of GCH (Alder) Ltd's 7 rated homes, 3 are below Good — this one and 2 others. See the operator.
Verbatim CQC ratings, each dated · data as at 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
- Care type
- Care home with nursing
- Beds
- 59
- Registered with CQC
- 25 Apr 2025
- Run by
- GCH (Alder) Ltd
- Part of
- Gold Care Homes · 46 services
- Phone
- 01895257010
Contact details as recorded by CQC — we don’t hold fees, vacancies or waiting lists, so those are worth asking about directly.
Who this service supports
The groups this service is registered with CQC to support. Registration says who a service may care for — it is not a quality judgement, and it is not a recommendation.
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Care home with nursing
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Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
The five key questions
| Key question | Rating | Published |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Requires improvement | 5 Dec 2023 |
| Effective | Requires improvement | 5 Dec 2023 |
| Caring | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 3 Nov 2017 |
| Responsive | Goodrating 3+ yrs old | 3 Nov 2017 |
| Well-led | Requires improvement | 5 Dec 2023 |
Ratings verbatim as published by CQC. Key questions can carry different dates when CQC re-inspects only part of a service.
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
Same operator — 6 other locations
Other active services registered to GCH (Alder) Ltd. The verdict above reads across this operator's whole rated portfolio.
| Name | Overall rating (published) | Local authority |
|---|---|---|
| Charlton Park Care Home | Good, published 10 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs old | Greenwich |
| Emberbrook Care Home | Good, published 8 Dec 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Surrey |
| Kingfisher House Care Home | Good, published 4 Apr 2018rating 3+ yrs old | Suffolk |
| Kingston Care Home | Requires improvement, published 1 Sep 2022rating 3+ yrs old | Kingston upon Thames |
| Lansdowne Care Home | Good, published 8 Mar 2023rating 3+ yrs old | Barnet |
| The Headington Care Home | Requires improvement, published 24 Jun 2026 | Oxfordshire |
Data as published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC
CQC publishes registrations and ratings. It holds nothing at all about fees, current vacancies, staffing levels, or the building itself — there is no field anywhere for door widths, hoists, wet rooms or ground-floor rooms. So no site, including this one, can tell you those. They are worth asking directly — the number is above.
- What are the fees, and what do they not include?
- Do you have a vacancy now, and would you hold a room?
- How many staff are on at night, and how are transfers staffed?
- What change in someone’s needs would mean they had to move, and can I see that in the contract?
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- Understand who paysThe means test, what happens to the home, and NHS Continuing Healthcare.
- How to read this ratingWhat the words mean, the five key questions, and why the date matters.
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See a sample and order →Similar services nearby
Nearest first — a place to look around, not a ranking. Other care homes with nursing within 10 miles, registered for at least one of the same groups this service supports. Distance is straight line between registered addresses. Not an assessment of anyone’s needs.
- Brendoncare Froxfieldabout 3.9 miles · Marlborough · 44 bedsGood, published 14 Aug 2019rating 3+ yrs old
- Bayford House Care Homeabout 5.2 miles · Newbury · 59 bedsGood, published 28 Feb 2020rating 3+ yrs old
- Aldbourne Nursing Homeabout 6.1 miles · Marlborough · 40 bedsGood, published 8 Mar 2024
- The Donnington Care Homeabout 6.9 miles · Newbury · 40 bedsGood, published 30 Mar 2021rating 3+ yrs old
- Sector
- Social Care Org
- On CQC’s site
- cqc.org.uk/location/1-21872704825
Every rating on this page is shown verbatim as CQC published it, each with its own publication date. Data as at 1 Sep 2026 — as published by CQC, bulk files of 01 Sep 2026 · source: CQC · data & methods.